W. S. Armour

Life
fl. 1934-1938; b. Ballymoney; son of James Brown Armour; editor of The Northern Whig; wrote a life of his father as Armour of Ballymoney (1934), dealing with such questions as the Irish Land War, the 1859 Religious Revival in Ulster, Edward Carson and the Ulster Volunteers and Sir Roger Casement’s nationalist career; also Facing the Irish Question (1935) and Ulster, Ireland, Britain: A Forgotten Trust (1938).

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Works
Armour of Ballymoney (London: Duckworth 1934), 393pp.; Facing the Irish Question (London: Duckworth 1935); Ulster, Ireland, Britain: A Forgotten Trust (London: Duckworth 1938) [infra].

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Criticism

  • J. S. Crone, ‘Sgéala ó Chathair na gCeó’, review of Armour of Ballymoney, Irish Book Lover, Vol. XXII, (Sept-Oct 1934), pp.102-03 [infra];
  • D. Ó C., review of Armour of Ballymoney, Irish Book Lover, Vol. XXIII (July-Aug. 1935), pp. 100-01; J. J. H., review of Facing the Irish Question, Irish Book Lover, Vol. XXIII (Sept-Oct 1935), p 120; ‘T.’ review of Mankind at the Watershed, Irish Book Lover, Vol. XXIV (Nov.-Dec 1936), p 141.

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